Word: rude
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only stared in a rather rude...
...dignity of student and gentleman will admit that the instruction given there is of the first order, of great interest, well presented, and that it deserves the respectful attention of all. In view of the above facts no one of refinement or delicacy of feeling could have witnessed the rude and very ungentlemanly conduct of certain members of the section Friday without visiting upon it the severest condemnation. I trust that a little of that sense of right which is, presumably, directed against a rival eleven, will exert itself actively in discouraging a repetition of the present instance...
...temptations and trials of American life and of the application to public affairs by an elderly lawyer and soldier of the loftiest principles of private morality. If he has a large following of 'the boys,' too, it will certainly be a hushed and deeply-moved crowd, for these rude natures are not insensible to the influence of openly-avowed spiritual regeneration...
Oscar Wilde said a few days ago that he considered Yale men very rude. He thinks that if Yale would pattern after Harvard more closely it would be in every respect a much better university...
...brother. But now in some unaccountable manner we have stirred up the solemn indignation of the Chronicle, and consequently we find ourselves confronted with a most severe and formidable lecture from our Ann Arbor friends upon the sins of sectional prejudice and local conceit. That same native vigor and rude energy of style which we found so remarkable in the case of the Review, is equally striking in the case of the Chronicle: therefore we have been led to connect, after the fashion of cause and effect, this mental malady (so characterized by illusion and belligerency), with the spasmodic intensity...